Notices by Max Kennerly (maxkennerly@mstdn.social), page 3

Donald Trump just loves Hamas supporters like Erdogan.

It is strange and disturbing to see so many posts on social media that deny it's a war crime to stage a surprise attack on civilians (including murders, kidnappings, and rapes) or to starve out a civilian population (by cutting off electricity, food, and water).

These are both obviously war crimes and should be discussed as such.

https://www.justsecurity.org/89403/the-siege-of-gaza-and-the-starvation-war-crime/

One cool thing about the world's-most-expensive American healthcare system is how even "nonprofits" can be incredibly lucrative for some people.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/chop-nonprofit-ceo-pay-madeline-bell-steve-klasko-20230913.html

Good. The whole concept of cash bail is that people should be detained pre-trial based on how much money they have, instead of whether they're a flight risk or a risk to the community. It's an indefensible system. It should be abolished everywhere.

"The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail when the new law takes effect Sept. 18."
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/illinois-supreme-court-upholds-far-reaching-law-ending-cash-bail

Threads is looking better and better. What I wanted from social media was:

* self-promotion from celebrities and rich people

* no control over my timeline

* strict prohibition of any sexual content

* nothing from europe

* no alt-text

* data harvesting to empower genocides

The letter from Twitter's lawyer to Meta over Threads is comically bad. There's no substance, just a vague claim that Twitter employees Elon fired had some sort of dark magic in their brains about how to make a microblogging service.

Lance Armstrong is a huge cheater in no position to talk about "fairness," of course.

But also note he has no record of advocating for remedying Title IX violations or for alleviating pay disparities. His supposed concern for women's sports begins and ends with trans athletes.

I'd love to hear Senators say when, exactly, they believe such an "unwritten rule" came to be.

It surely wasn't before 1972, which was the first time Senators could ever "filibuster" something without actually being present.

It's not failing to remove, it's choosing to promote. Wasting a ton of money to spread hate speech is Musk's great philanthropic endeavor, his Carnegie libraries. https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-fails-to-remove-hate-speech-by-blue-check-users-says-report-from-center-for-countering-digital-hate?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page

This is not just defiance of Congress by a billionaire private citizen. The argument he's making is akin to "sovereign citizen" nonsense: Congress can't investigate me because I personally feel the legislation they hypothetically might pass later would be unconstitutional.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-senate-democrats_n_646ce638e4b056fd46dcc582?rk6

Can't say I understand why, but I'm glad the Chief AI Scientist at Meta is determined to convince everyone that the AI industry does not take trust and safety issues seriously and thus needs to be heavily regulated. 🤷♂️

Actual poll: overwhelming majorities support laws prohibiting discrimination against trans people.

WaPo headline and reporter's tweet: "Most Americans support anti-trans policies favored by GOP."

Just straight-up lying.

https://files.kff.org/attachment/Topline-KFF-Washington-Post-Trans-Survey.pdf

It'd be nice to have a simple Twitter replacement but FYI the #Bluesky approach to moderation is "we'll do basic filtering of the worst stuff, but the rest is up to someone else, users, developers, whatever" https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

"AI will eventually free people up to 'work when they want to,' ChatGPT investor predicts"

Uh huh, sure, the same thing was said about the industrial revolution and about mass production and about personal computers but then the wealthy absorbed all of productivity benefits and then kept demanding a bigger and bigger slice of the pie anyway.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-investor-predicts-ai-will-free-humanity-from-work-2023-3

Gift link for Elizabeth Warren's op-ed about bank failures: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/opinion/elizabeth-warren-silicon-valley-bank.html?unlocked_article_code=kyxKTSRbgb_XIfIEpL6zOgMrUHUirEpFE9X1b5vaM6NphXagwmvrd2N_znm4cE5ikFGGyDiAWW7VvTKAlO5M-pxr3ZhmGEJDzuvfH-JLZX_GV0ruNJaZ_Qhmtqng3573st89nVGRofp_5QJuHaHcCwq9885bbSJAVgpJqq5AEDjlw9X1y0QbYcnnhM-ZXgg7sq8ZY6OD9pM9ZiWQ6_5_XTz5xlJe_BJroYdrq-PknazbEsXQfT_yJcRLAhL4_j9xOvf4kfe6hacRAqvNgqAPUJ5joNfcry6uTizkhcUPMESeGSOhGVS6HEUuXHc5LxNEpB_0zJg09PyalAMZkVnHK9VEFVdbNTpreBMmFIkc&smid=url-share

Layoffs and stock buybacks are usually perceived by investors as savvy business decisions by pragmatic leaders when in reality both are an admission by the board and management that they have no idea what they're doing.

Layoffs are an admission the company doesn't know how to use human resources.

Stock buybacks are an admission the company doesn't know how to use capital.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Checking in on #Twitter, seems the boss man is all about boosting lazy antivax content.

The people who crow endlessly about "back the blue" are the same ones who foam at the mouth whenever COVID mitigation measures are suggested.

"COVID was the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 for 3rd year in a row"

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-leading-cause-law-enforcement-deaths-2022-3rd/story?id=96363324

IIRC, using a Google Voice number for your 2FA was considered a security best-practice. Jack Dorsey himself got his account hacked via an SIM swap on a typical mobile carrier.

So of course Musk broke that functionality, presumably in the name of collecting personal data for exploitation.

cc @SwiftOnSecurity

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-google-voice-2fa-authentication-sms-195145660.html?src=rss